NACS has held an annual meeting since it was founded in 1961. These first meetings actually were called “annual meetings,” as opposed to being known as the “NACS Show.” It wasn’t until 1976 that the meeting even included a true exhibition. While NACS continued to hold annual meetings, the expo was part of the event only every two or three years. From 1986 on, the annual meeting included an expo, although those early years featured a greatly scaled-down expo every other year until what is known today as the NACS Show debuted in 1993. Today, the NACS Show is rotated between three cities: Chicago, Las Vegas and Atlanta.

Year	Location	Attendance	Expo Size (net sq. ft.)
1993	San Francisco	11,900	171,000
1994	New Orleans	13,900	172,000
1995	Chicago	16,200	188,000
1996	Las Vegas	16,100	229,000
1997	Orlando	19,000	253,000
1998	Atlanta	21,000	262,000
1999	Chicago	23,642	278,000
2000	New Orleans	23,032	300,100
2001	Las Vegas	21,064	304,400
2002	Orlando	22,368	372,150
2003	Chicago	22,165	369,500
2004	Las Vegas	24,365	377,400
2005	Las Vegas+	22,350	372,700
2006	Las Vegas	22,579	384,000
2007	Atlanta	22,806	382,800
2008	Chicago	21,303	382,350
2009	Las Vegas	22,524	348,800
2010	Atlanta	21,983	372,800
2011	Chicago	22,312	387,000
2012	Las Vegas	24,056	381,050
2013	Atlanta	22,263	403,200
2014	Las Vegas	23,624	403,000
2015	Las Vegas	24,392	412,600
2016	Atlanta	23,301	408,500
2017	Chicago	24,940	425,000
2018	Las Vegas	25,159	431,800
2019	Atlanta	23,539	425,000

+ Show relocated from New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina

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